Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-05-27

his decision adversely to the contuma-
cious priest and in full support of the
Archbishop. The letter says: at has
indeed been great grief to US to see the
rebellion which has arisen against your
authority in your city, through crattily
devised Vaccinations and the open con-
spiracy of factieus men," And again: 1T
is indeed grateful to US, and approved by
us, that you have labored to crush, ere
they sprang up, the vicious seeds of doc
trines scattered under the pretext of help
ing the masses"
That such would be the final decision
of the Pope upon the extraordinary ques-
tion involved in the disobedience of DR..
McGlynn no fair judging person has ever
doubted. As the expounder and supreme
Judge of the ecclesiastical law of the
Catholic Church, the Holy See could not
have been expected to overlook the fact
that the private ownership land results
necessarily from the divine as we'll as
municipal law, and is the only practical
methed for the propagation and lawful
enjoyment by mankind Of the fruits of the
earth. Therefore, even although the eccle
siastical discipline should be so far relaxed
as to permit the clergy to participate
in political agitations, the church author
titles could in no event permit their priests
to foment political theories in antagonism
to the fundamental principles of civil
government.
Henry George and DR.. McGlyan are both
of them honest, earnest, humane men, who,
it cannot be fairly doubted. are laboring
in all sincerity for the betterment Of the
condition of that class of mankind who
toll for their living. Both of them too,
are men gifted with more than ordinary
ta1crfS, 81. 20 srfv with them DoIn is
that the circumstances of their early edu-
cation were such as to unfit them TO be
men of affairs. The one was trained in
the school of the practical mechanic and
the other in that of the ecclestical, with
the result that the mental vision of the
one has been gagged to the horizon of the
workshop and the other to that of the
cloister. Their minds are not broad
enough TO view question from the stand
point of the statesman and hence the ex-
travagant character of the remedies tLey
advocate for the evils which oppless the
workiugmen.
Mr.. George looks at the large profits
realized by the landlord from eligible city
real estate and the burdensome rent which
the city mechanic has to pay for the house
he lives in, and he jumps hastily to the
conclusion that real estate should bear all
taxes and that private property in lands
should be destroyed. He overlooks the
fact that as rule the capital invested in
lands in this country yield the least in
come of any class of investment. The rev.
erend doctor looks at the oppression suf-
fered by the Irish tenantry of the English
landlords and taking this as his inspira-
tion he fancies he sees in Georges COM
munistic agitation in America a remedy
for the evils which afflict his native Erin
isle, and so he joins in it.
That both of these good men are sim
cere and unselfsh in their extraordinary
agitation their is little room to doubt, that
the theories they advocate are impracti-
cable, extravagant and radically wrong
there is no need of arguments to prove
"Free land" in the sense they would give
it, is most mischievous fallacy, but still
'free land' as a political watchword is
not without meaning at the present time
'Free land" in the sense that it has been
80 steadfastly advocated by the Democra.
tic party-viz: the preservation of the
public domains OF the government and
their free distribution to agricultural set
tlers-is practical, sensible, real ques
tion, which should command the support
of all true patriots. These public do
mains, open to settlement by the first
conner, afford most effective safety valve
to relieve the pressure upon the poor me.
chanic when the factories become over
crowded, and therefore Mr.. George and
his reverend ally should be alive to the
Importance of this burning question. The
heroic efforts which have been made by
the present administration to wrest some
ef the fairest Of these domains from the
monopolistic group of the rich corpora
ticns-the creatures of Republican rule
should command the strong and active
support of these labor leaders and they
should align their forces, where alone they
can be effective, in the ranks of the great
Democratic party.